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I must be a woman. I need to work out, find someone who can teach me proper form on oly lifts (I'm deathly afraid of injury, I avoid strains and pulled muscles like the plague), figure out what to make for dinner and thaw it ahead of time, clean out the dust in my computer, change the oil in my lawnmower and mow the lawn,…

QFT. ^ that's why refeeds are necessary. Also, you have to be educated about how to cut if you're going to employ greater than a 20% cut in your calories. You need to be taking a multivitamin, and you need to be eating sufficient protein. You shouldn't do a 40/30/30 zone type macro setup when you are cutting that hard.…

It sort of like driving a car. You *can* go faster, but there are greater risks and challenges when you speed up. When you cut calories a significant amount, what you will see is weight fall off at first... but your body thinks that lean times are ahead, in the way that we evolved as hunter gatherers.. our hormonal profile…

Water weighs one pound for every 16 oz, or a pound per large glass

It does if you have a gambling addiction. I'm really sick of people on here. I love the supportive posts, you guys are what love and understanding is all about! But the people making nasty, rude, denigrating posts towards someone who has issues not with her weight but her self image.. you disgust me, just.. :explode: We…

He talks about it in other articles when he discusses how to fast. And you can find BCAA's online or in any supplement store, I like the Cellucor watermelon flavor. I stack it with Creatine Mono and my preworkout 45-30 min before I hit the gym.

BCAA's are not the same as whey or soy or casein protein. Whey's are much less dense and less targeted, Leangains calls for 30g of whey pre-workout if you can't get your hands on Branched Chain Amino Acids. The whole Idea is maximizing the sharpness of your hormones and metabolism when you work out in a fasted state.…

He says to consume 10g of BCAA's 30 min before your workout, if you choose to work out in the fasted state. He cites some interesting research about fasted state training have a much sharper effect on the hormonal and metabolic response as opposed to fed state training (weight training of course). Otherwise, no more than…

Flour, yeast, water, salt Is the key components of any bread. Adding fat to the dough will add chewy and mouth feel and a different texture, but without water, you cannot hydrate the wheat proteins to form gluten, the key to risen yeast breads.

Ahhh, this is an excellent question. Pizza from a chain or store is bread loaded with fat (cheese, wayyy more than it needs) and fatty cuts of meat. The fattiest. Pepperoni and sausage? Why don't we just put cookies on the pizza too.. My homemade pizza is made with bread flour, so yes, the crust has carbs, but it has a ton…

It takes dedication, and a massive amount of andro roids..

With what your diary looks like, you're either not logging every calorie you consume, or you're eating too much for what your exercise expenditure is. With days that go from 700 to 1700, my bet is the first. Log and weigh everything, and be mindful of the fact that a lot of the entries in MFP are not verified, they could…

Because the difference is in how long it takes to lose the weight. I *can* lose a pound a month, but why would anyone settle for that??

I don't know what lemon scented pledge you've been using lately, but the last thing that I would do to destress is run.. inside.. in the same place.. watching myself in the mirror.. for hours.. count the minutes.. tick. tock. But some people find running very refreshing =)

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html There is no metabolic pathway to turn ethanol into stored fat, however, while your liver is busy processing the alcohol, it is *not* processing the sugars that go along with your drink, or any food you eat while your liver is busy, lending those…

He's a cardiothoracic surgeon... Not a diagnostician, not a reasearcher, not an endocrinologist, not an internal medicine specialist, he doesn't specialize in any particular field or focus.. He's a cutter. A Saw Bones. He took his experience with dealing with diseases and disorders of the metabolic systems and applied them…

Lol, That's all it takes, try the different methods to see what works for your body. All it takes to lose is an undying commitment to reach your goals. Most of what I was saying was a counter argument to those who were making statments along the lines of "there can be only one path.." If I came off as pushy or pretentious…

Your post touches on a lot of touchy subjects around here. In the forums there are essentially two factions, the "eat more to weigh less" minded people that thinks that your weight loss should be no faster than 1/2 to 1 pound per week.. and if you lose any faster than that (by cutting calories too drastically) you risk…

take a gallon jug, and fill it with water. Then weigh yourself on your scale, and then weigh yourself again holding the jug of water. A gallon of it weighs 8.3 pounds.. which is why fighters will dehydrate to make weight, they can lose up to 15 pounds just by shedding the water. Compare that to the differences in how much…

Are you talking men or women? Because women can weight train a TON, and yet they won't look like they've lifted at all. They lack the hormonal profile to put on much muscle at all. Men on the other hand open a pickle jar and watch their bicep grow..

yes, weight training. Compare a marathon runner's physique to a sprinter or bodybuilder's physique Which would you like to see in a banana hammock? Lift hard, lift often, grow your muscles to fill out your skin, and always strive to break personal lifting records, lift more than you thought was possible.…

1200, the number, the idea, the notion of it is a HIGHLY controversial thing around here. The title of the thread is ensured to bring out all the women who are fanatically mad that they have to eat so little to keep their shape. Those kinds of people, the ones who hate being told to eat less, have started their own, slow…

Ow ow ow ow Ice cream headache from reading that..

Could you be pregnant?

You're right, it's much better that she love herself while developing diabetes than to fit a healthy, society mandated image. Better yet, we could all do a better job of staying at a "Healthy" weight. At some point you have to be an adult. No. Being overweight is *NOT* okay.

Not at all, I'm saying that a -20% cut will take weight off much slower than setting a goal of how many calories to "un-eat" for the week. and the change in weight from upping calories is more likely due to water retention or *weight* gain from the weight of the food you ate and water you drank. Take an empty gallon jug,…

A -20% cut for someone who maintains at 1700 calories is a 340 calorie deficit per day, or almost 11 days to lose one pound (1 pound = 3500 calories) or twenty two days to lose 2 pounds. If your maintenance calories or TDEE is less, then a 20% cut will take even longer to lose 1 pound. With variations in hydration levels…

Too much cocaine is harmful too. What's your point? Most vitamins and minerals consumed over what we need are passed out anyways. Ever had a B vitamin shot before? Ever wonder why your pee is neon colored after??

I know right. Don't tell her to leave, there are plenty of skinny-fat people on here trying to get toned and fill out without bulking on fat. OP: you don't have a lot to lose. You lost an inch.. That's great progress for someone who needs to trim down slightly. The battle of the bulge is won by eternal vigilance. Learn to…

Those posts aren't data though, you have no way of knowing that 1200 stalled their weight loss. It could have been a plethora of other factors. Personally, I believe that people who stall out at 1200 are people who can't handle that kind of cut. There is so much inaccuracy about logging, you can't be sure that there wasn't…